Example sentences of "that used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ England is an island without sea , or else an island that used to be sea-bound , only so long ago that the sea 's now evaporated . ’ |
| 2 | Built in 1903 it has bronze and marble panels in an Art Nouveau style depicting the friars from the monastery that used to be on the site . |
| 3 | In other words , they 're taking a lot of the task that used to be given to manufacturers away from them and so manufacturers today are not by and large so concerned with manufacturing brands which are their own and will sit on retailers ' shelves as with providing a product for a retailer who wants to construct his own brand . |
| 4 | It 's that picture of a cat that used to be on Marie 's wall . |
| 5 | The hardest task for his subordinates is to decide what the phrase ( now often shortened to NWO and not to be confused with the airline that used to be called Northwest Orient ) might mean . |
| 6 | There must be oodles of territory in Saxony and Thuringia that used to be owned by the East German government . |
| 7 | They dispose of ‘ all the nice furniture that used to be in the saloon and then the candelabra ’ . |
| 8 | Marie passed the old chalets , neglected and boarded up now , their paint peeling , their woodwork rotting away , that used to be rented out to holidaymakers . |
| 9 | Plymouth Drake : tough fight for Dame Janet Fookes in seat that used to be one of most marginal in Britain ; though Lib Dem Val Cox needs only a four per cent swing , Labour barrister Peter Telford has best hopes . |
| 10 | A small lodge house that used to be some sort of appendage of Burnage Court is currently for sale through Hamptons . |
| 11 | His remarks brought to mind a particularly tough circuit-training class , Terry 's Power Hour , that used to be much in vogue at Battersea 's Metropolitan Club . |
| 12 | Though the standard approach to agoraphobia is an overtly behavioural one of graded exposure , many of the aspects of exposure that used to be described as ‘ non-specific ’ , such as arriving at a realistic interpretation of the week 's events , or at accurate expectations for the future , or dealing with reservations about treatment , are now described in cognitive terms . |
| 13 | I 'll have a look in the loft , shall I , for those little Kate Greenaway pictures that used to be in Hilary 's room ? |
| 14 | This was the kind of language that used to be attributed to the sharper end of the second-hand book world . |
| 15 | It 's only when the peak has been conquered that thoughts turn to the delicious things that used to be in the foil-covered dishes , and the question of how best to prepare the spam . |
| 16 | street in central London ; name derived from a chain that used to be thrown across the roadway to prevent its use during divine service in St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 17 | To begin with there must be detailed analyses of small and intermediate-size LOCA 's as well as the large double ended breaks that used to be at the centre of safety analyses and formed the so-called ‘ design basis ’ accident . |
| 18 | The animal chosen for the task was the Soay , a pretty Hebridean sheep that used to be an endangered breed . |
| 19 | I could see the socks inside the trainers — they were Dayglo green , the sort that used to be in fashion years ago — and they kept walking towards me . |
| 20 | He surveyed the scene of human chaos and the mud patch that used to be the floor , raised his voice above the high-pitched din and yelled ‘ Who told you to come in here , you silly children ? |
| 21 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 22 | I feel like a Polo Mint , a thick , brittle wall surrounding a void that used to be me . |
| 23 | Instead it 's a confused product of jobbing hacks and sad people out of their depth — none more so than George ‘ Columbus ’ Corraface , a handsome trier reminiscent of those blokes that used to be out-acted by skeletons in Sinbad films . |
| 24 | Adam was thinking about this interesting word that used to be simply another term for pine but which originally meant a certain size of plank , from the Low German dele , when there came a loud knocking on the back door . |
| 25 | That used to be what the EC was dedicated to as well . |
| 26 | Consider for example the distinctive variety that used to be known as ‘ motherese ’ ( now usually called ‘ caretaker register ’ or ‘ child-directed speech ‘ ) . |
| 27 | Eldorado Close got its name from a kind of needle that used to be made locally . |
| 28 | I did n't like The Beatles or the Stones until a couple of years ago , 'cos that used to be drummed into me when I was growing up . |
| 29 | Many banks that used to be trusts or owned by the state have converted to joint-stock status in order to take advantage of tax breaks offered by the Italian treasury . |
| 30 | It sets free nuclear explosives that used to be tucked away in superpower arsenals , and must now be disposed of |